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Dracut School Committee member Rebecca Duda visits Laurie Archambault’s Englesby Elementary kindergarten classroom on Read Across America Day in March. Front row, from left: Alejandro Landaverde, Kathleen Russo, Reagan Vinal, Charlotte Moran, Mira Medina and Brayden Hayes. Middle row, from left: Samantha Sorensen, Julian Ngumba, Irena Wassilak and Nayla Williams. Back row, from left: Duda, Diego Cabral, Samara Ponte, Dylan Bernos and Jameson Ngumba. (Courtesy of Laurie Archambault) DRACUT — School is out and summer is officially underway. It’s time to start summer reading while sitting by the pool or on the beach. The students in Mrs. Laurie Archambault’s kindergarten…

Last week, the first group’s battle to be the main team for the MasterChef 2024 season ended. The four from this group who did not make it into the main team were relegated to the reserves, which was their last chance. This week, a total of five contestants from the second group will join the main team. In the episode airing on Thursday, July 18, the sixth contestant who will join the main roster of MasterChef 2024 and the first contestant from the second group will be announced. So, who made it onto the main roster of MasterChef? Who will…

It has been claimed that US President Biden may withdraw from the presidential election over the weekend. It has been claimed that US President Joe Biden may end his campaign for the November 5th presidential election this weekend. The New York Times also wrote that Biden is “beginning to accept the idea that he cannot win the election and may have to withdraw from the race.” Entry: 19.07.2024 – 00:22 Updated: 19.07.2024 – 00:38 Facebook twitter-x linkedin whatsapp email subscribe News website Axios has compiled a report compiling comments that suggest US President Joe Biden was persuaded to resign as…

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) – The WAFER Food Pantry in La Crosse is urgently seeking donations to help serve the local community.WAFER plays a vital role in providing meals to families in La Crosse County.The new location has made the food pantry more accessible and increased demand for its services, and Executive Director Erin Waldhart said families are going through more food now that schools are no longer providing meals to students.”So we have more families serving us. More mouths to feed in the summer and more meals to serve when school is out,” Waldhart said.WAFER Food Pantry goes through…

TVLSE, Okla. – The movement to uncover Tulsa’s land parcel history took a big step forward with the hosting of the first-ever intertribal symposium on research into local Native American history. Indigenous Roots: Exploring the History of Indian Country was hosted by Muskoke-owned media outlets Verified News Network (VNN) and Osage News. The symposium, held July 12 and 13, featured topics on Native American journalism, land parcel history and genealogical research. A highlight of the event was the announcement that access to Indian Rights Association Act records held by the Pennsylvania Historical Society had recently been opened. The symposium consisted…

Various aspects of the new tax package submitted to the Turkish Grand National Assembly are being discussed. As you know, this package also includes tax increases for bosses who operate projects built under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. Corporate taxes collected from bosses running highway, bridge and tunnel projects and city hospitals built and operated under the PPP model will increase by five percentage points. Once this law comes into force, profits made within the scope of PPP projects will be taxed at a rate of 30 percent instead of 25 percent. According to an impact analysis prepared and distributed…

California officials plan to seek a further increase to the state’s controversial $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers, even as they blame a new law that has led to higher menu prices and restaurant closures since it went into effect in April. Members of the California Food Council, which successfully lobbied for the wage increase, plan to ask for another 3.5% raise when they meet later this month, according to Restaurant Business. The council was created by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, who signed into law AB 1228, a bill that requires quick-service restaurants with at least 60 locations…

In Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest countries, people are spending days on the streets. According to foreign media reports, 14 people have been killed by police bullets so far, and citizens have attempted to lynch the police. To thwart protests that erupted in Bangladesh in protest against high youth unemployment, the government closed all universities, cut off the internet and police intervened by using pepper gas against demonstrators. Six people have been killed and hundreds injured in protests this week alone. The death toll since the incident began is now recorded at 25. More than 32 million of Bangladesh’s…

Turkish Grand National Assembly debates ‘stray animals’ | Breaking News The debate on stray animals left a deep mark on the post-committee plenary session of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. During the speech of the Deputy Chair of the Group at the Turkish Grand National Assembly plenary session, a debate on “stray animals” erupted. Entry: 18.07.2024 – 22:24 Updated: 18.07.2024 – 22:24 Facebook twitter-x linkedin whatsapp email subscribe The Turkish Grand National Assembly plenary session, held under the chairmanship of Deputy Speaker of Parliament Celal Adan, discussed “Drafts to Amend Certain Laws and Decrees,” including regulations on savings measures. “Yesterday,…

If the walls of Hangar 79 at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum could talk, only they could narrate the 85 minutes of utter chaos that reigned on Dec. 7, 1941. Though no witnesses remain to the events of that day, the bullet holes peppered the countless panes of glass are a stark reminder of how fragile life can be.Keeping the memory of the 2,403 Pearl Harbor victims alive are dozens of museum employees, including people like Ronald Montgomery, a Navy veteran who spent 28 years as an aircraft mechanic and still uses his skills to keep the historic aircraft on…